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Making Science Relevant: Comparing Two Science Advisory Organizations Beyond the Linear Knowledge Model Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Göran Sundqvist, Sebastian Linke
This article compares two science advisory organizations: the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES), with a special focus on how their respective policy systems absorb the knowledge delivered for use in decision processes. The science-policy processes of these two organizations differ in important respects; ICES delivers
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Political Speech on Campus: Shifting the Emphasis from “if” to “how” Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Mario Clemens, Christian Hochmuth
Universities in many liberal democracies, such as the US, the UK, or Germany, grapple with a pivotal question: how much room should be given to controversial utterances? On the one side, there are those who advocate for limiting permissible speech on campus to create a safe environment for a diverse student body and counter the mainstreaming of extremist views, particularly by right-wing populists
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Citation Elites in Polytheistic and Umbrella Disciplines: Patterns of Stratification and Concentration in Danish and British Science Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Alexander Kladakis, Philippe Mongeon, Carter W. Bloch
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Evaluation Practices of Doctoral Examination Committees: Boundary-Work Under Pressure Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Maja Elmgren, Åsa Lindberg-Sand, Anders Sonesson
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Structural Power and Epistemologies in the Scientific Field: Why a Rapid Reconciliation Between Functional and Evolutionary Biology is Unlikely Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Pierre Benz, Felix Bühlmann
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Mapping the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Niels Taubert, Linda Sterzik, Andre Bruns
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The Feeling Rules of Peer Review: Defining, Displaying, and Managing Emotions in Evaluation for Research Funding Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Lucas Brunet, Ruth Müller
Punctuated by joy, disappointments, and conflicts, research evaluation constitutes an intense, emotional moment in scientific life. Yet reviewers and research institutions often expect evaluations to be conducted objectively and dispassionately. Inspired by the scholarship describing the role of emotions in scientific practices, we argue instead, that reviewers actively define, display and manage their
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New Arguments for a pure lottery in Research Funding: A Sketch for a Future Science Policy Without Time-Consuming Grant Competitions Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Lambros Roumbanis
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Academic Inbreeding at Universities in the Czech Republic: Beyond Immobile Inbred Employees? Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Jan Kohoutek, Karel Hanuš, Marián Sekerák
This paper presents the results of qualitative research on academic inbreeding in Czech higher education, the first of its kind. Its focus is on exploring the significance of academic inbreeding, its types, practices, and possible solutions. The research for this paper was done among academic staff at eight institutions of higher education in the Czech Republic. It was conceptually informed by ideas
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Pushing Boundaries: The European Universities Initiative as a Case of Transnational Institution Building Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Marcelo Marques, Lukas Graf
The European Universities Initiative (EUI), created by the European Commission in 2017, is a recent novel phenomenon within the European Union policy toolkit that explicitly targets the development of transnational cooperation in higher education (HE). To date, the EUI counts 44 European university alliances, involving around 340 HE institutions. In this paper, we argue that the EUI can be seen as
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The Corona Truth Wars: Epistemic Disputes and Societal Conflicts around a Pandemic—An Introduction to the Special Issue Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Jaron Harambam, Ehler Voss
Ever since the start of the Corona pandemic, different and often conflicting views have emerged about the virus and how to appropriately deal with it. Such epistemic, societal, and economic criticisms, including those about government imposed measures, have often been dismissed as dangerous forms of conspiratorial disinformation that should be (and have been) excluded from the realm of reasonable political
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Conceptions of Professionalism in U.S. Research Universities: Evidence from the gradSERU Survey Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Steven Brint, Ali O. Ilhan
Recent scholars of the professions have argued that a new hybrid form of professionalism is becoming dominant. This new form combines traditional commitments to ethics and community service with new commitments to managerial and entrepreneurial objectives. We analyze the perceptions of 4,300 U.S. graduate students in 21 fields concerning how well their programs have prepared them for leadership and
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Imagining Doctoral Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Driving Technology or Being Driven by Technology Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Jisun Jung
The recent technological revolution, often referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution or the Second Machine Age, has brought significant changes in both the knowledge production process and its outputs. These changes have raised the question of whether a doctoral degree will retain its unique value as a knowledge creator in the future. In addition, the global challenges confronting society, such
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Illiberal Reactions to Higher Education Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Evan Schofer, Julia C. Lerch, John W. Meyer
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Social Innovation: A Retrospective Perspective Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Liliya Satalkina, Gerald Steiner
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Participatory Governance Practices at the Democracy-Knowledge-Nexus Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Eva Krick
Against the background of an increasing dependency of governance on specialized expertise and growing calls for citizen participation, this study discusses solutions to the tension between knowledge and democracy. It asks: Which institutions and practices add to striking a balance between knowledge-based decision-making and the involvement of the affected? Based on the social studies of science, knowledge
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Academic Inbreeding: Academic Oligarchy, Effects, and Barriers to Change Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Hugo Horta
Most studies of academic inbreeding have focused on assessing its impact on scholarly practices, outputs, and outcomes. Few studies have concentrated on the other possible effects of academic inbreeding. This paper draws on a large number of studies on academic inbreeding to explore how the practice has been conceptualized, how it has emerged, and how it has been rationalized in the creation and development
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Citizen Science in Deliberative Systems: Participation, Epistemic Injustice, and Civic Empowerment Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Lisa Herzog, Robert Lepenies
In this paper, we bring together the literature on citizen science and on deliberative democracy and epistemic injustice. We argue that citizen science can be seen as one element of “deliberative systems,” as described by Mansbridge et al. But in order to fulfil its democratic potential, citizen science needs to be attentive to various forms of exclusion and epistemic injustice, as analyzed by Fricker
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Stress-Inducing and Anxiety-Ridden: A Practice-Based Approach to the Construction of Status-Bestowing Evaluations in Research Funding Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Peter Edlund, Inti Lammi
More than resource allocations, evaluations of funding applications have become central instances for status bestowal in academia. Much attention in past literature has been devoted to grasping the status consequences of prominent funding evaluations. But little attention has been paid to understanding how the status-bestowing momentum of such evaluations is constructed. Throughout this paper, our
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Retraction Stigma and its Communication via Retraction Notices Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2022-04-10 Shaoxiong Brian Xu, Guangwei Hu
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Katherine E. Smith, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart and Richard Watermeyer, The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Thomas Franssen
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Acceptable Use: Morality and Credibility Struggles in Swedish 1960s Alcohol and Illicit Drug (Ab)use Research and Policy Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Lena Eriksson, Helena Bergman
This article explores morality and credibility struggles in connection to two officially sanctioned public Swedish experiments launched in the late 1960s to investigate the (ab)use of alcohol and illicit drugs, especially in relation to young people, and the subsequent decisions to terminate the experiments and research. We argue that these 1960s struggles on how to analyze the effects of increased
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“The Hardest Task”—Peer Review and the Evaluation of Technological Activities Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Federico Vasen, Miguel Sierra Pereiro
Technology development and innovation are fundamentally different from scientific research. However, in many circumstances, they are evaluated jointly and by the same processes. In these cases, peer review—the most usual procedure for evaluating research—is also applied to the evaluation of technological products and innovation activities. This can lead to unfair results and end up discouraging the
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The Societal Territory of Academic Disciplines: How Disciplines Matter to Society Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Silje Maria Tellmann
This paper analyses the interrelations between academic disciplines and society beyond academia by the case of sociology in Norway. For that purpose, this paper introduces the concept of disciplines’ societal territories, which refer to bounded societal spaces that are shaped by the knowledge of a discipline, premised on the linkages between the discipline and its audience. By mapping sociologists’
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Understanding Conceptual Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Policy: The Role of Policymaking Conditions Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2022-02-12 Jakob Edler, Maria Karaulova, Katharine Barker
This paper presents a framework to understand the impact of scientific knowledge on the policy-making process, focusing on the conceptual impact. We note the continuing dissatisfaction with the quality and effects of science-policy interactions in both theory and practice. We critique the current literature’s emphasis on the efforts of scientists to generate policy impact, because it neglects the role
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Out of the Ivory Tower: The Patenting Activity of Canadian University Professors Before the 1980s Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Maxime Colleret, Yves Gingras
This study analyses the patenting activities of university science and engineering professors in Canada between 1920 and 1975. Unlike most studies on commercial activities in academia, which typically focus on the post-1980 period and on university practices, we focus on the pre-1980 period and on the individual decisions of professors to patent their inventions. Based on quantitative patent data,
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Reimagining Health as a ‘Flow on Effect’ of Biomedical Innovation: Research Policy as a Site of State Activism Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Miller, Georgia, Kuch, Declan, Kearnes, Matthew
As health care systems have been recast as innovation assets, commercial aims are increasingly prominent within states’ health and medical research policies. Despite this, the reformulation of notions of social and of scientific value and of long-standing relations between science and the state that is occurring in research policies remains comparatively unexamined. Addressing this lacuna, this article
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Revisiting the Global Knowledge Economy: The Worldwide Expansion of Research and Development Personnel, 1980–2015 Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Mike Zapp
Global science expansion and the ‘skills premium’ in labor markets have been extensively discussed in the literature on the global knowledge economy, yet the focus on, broadly-speaking, knowledge-related personnel as a key factor is surprisingly absent. This article draws on UIS and OECD data on research and development (R&D) personnel for the period 1980 to 2015 for up to N = 82 countries to gauge
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Triple Helix or Quadruple Helix: Which Model of Innovation to Choose for Empirical Studies? Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Cai, Yuzhuo, Lattu, Annina
While the Triple Helix and Quadruple Helix models are popular in innovation studies, the relations between them have not been addressed extensively in the literature. There are diverse interpretations of helix models in empirical studies that apply them, but these sometimes deviate from the original theses of the models. Such a situation can confuse newcomers to the field in terms of which helix model
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A Sociocultural Perspective on Scholars Developing Research Skills via Research Communities in Vietnam Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-10-09 Hoang, Cuong Huu, Dang, Trang Thi Doan
Given the importance of research communities and research mentoring activities in developing research skills, universities around the world have paid special attention to improving these two dimensions. However, developing research communities and research mentoring culture in Vietnamese universities largely remain at a nascent stage because these universities often have a short history of conducting
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Academic Reform in Fractured Disciplines – On the Interaction of Bologna, New-Public-Management and the Dynamics of Disciplinary Development Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Grunert, Cathleen, Ludwig, Katja
At the intersection of science studies and higher education research, this contribution looks at the way in which the requirements of universities as organizations release development dynamics in academic disciplines and it analyses the interaction between discipline and organization. We will analyse German educational science, bearing in mind it is an example of disciplines that are fractured and
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The Independence of Research—A Review of Disciplinary Perspectives and Outline of Interdisciplinary Prospects Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-09-08 Gläser, Jochen, Ash, Mitchell, Buenstorf, Guido, Hopf, David, Hubenschmid, Lara, Janßen, Melike, Laudel, Grit, Schimank, Uwe, Stoll, Marlene, Wilholt, Torsten, Zechlin, Lothar, Lieb, Klaus
The independence of research is a key strategic issue of modern societies. Dealing with it appropriately poses legal, economic, political, social and cultural problems for society, which have been studied by the corresponding disciplines and are increasingly the subject of reflexive discourses of scientific communities. Unfortunately, problems of independence are usually framed in disciplinary contexts
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David John Frank & John W. Meyer, The University and the Global Knowledge Society Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-08-05 Jieun Song
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Academia in the Grip of the Wolf and Its Utopia Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-07-17 Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik
In 2015, Willem Halffman and Hans Radder published in Minerva a paper, in which they diagnosed that our universities are colonized by “The Wolf of management.” Using the example of the reforms afflicting the Polish academic world, I show that this colonization has intensified, and apart from the processes described in the aforementioned paper, it brought consequences that have changed academic culture:
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Beyond the “STEM Pipeline”: Expertise, Careers, and Lifelong Learning Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-06-15 John D. Skrentny, Kevin Lewis
Studies of education and careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) commonly use a pipeline metaphor to conceptualize forward movement and persistence. However, the “STEM pipeline” carries implicit assumptions regarding length (i.e. that it “starts” and “stops” at specific stages in one’s education or career), contents (i.e. that some occupational fields are “in” the pipeline while
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Re-invent Yourself! How Demands for Innovativeness Reshape Epistemic Practices Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-06-08 Ruth I. Falkenberg
In the current research landscape, there are increasing demands for research to be innovative and cutting-edge. At the same time, concerns are voiced that as a consequence of neoliberal regimes of research governance, innovative research becomes impeded. In this paper, I suggest that to gain a better understanding of these dynamics, it is indispensable to scrutinise current demands for innovativeness
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Public Value Promises and Outcome Reporting in Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 John P. Nelson
U.S. federal research funding is generally justified by promises of public benefits, but the specific natures and distribution of such benefits often remain vague and ambiguous. Furthermore, the metrics by which outcomes are reported often do not necessarily or strongly imply the achievement of public benefits. These ambiguities and discontinuities make it difficult to assess the public outcomes of
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Performing Expertise in Building Regulation: ‘Codespeak’ and Fire Safety Experts Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-05-26 Angus Law, Graham Spinardi
Fire safety expertise was in great demand following the Grenfell Tower fire in London in June 2017. The government established a review of building regulations and an expert panel to inform its responses to Grenfell, and many other relevant organisations also formed their own expert panels. However, expert knowledge in fire safety is a highly contested domain, with knowledge claims based on differing
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Boundaries Crossed and Boundaries Made: The Productive Tension Between Learning and Influence in Transformative Networks Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Julie Risien, Bruce Evan Goldstein
We present an in-depth case study of a learning network that aims to transform infrastructure and practice across the research enterprise to advance societal impacts. The theory of social morphogenesis guides our processual qualitative analysis of the network. We describe how different types of boundary work, both building and navigating across boundaries, operate in tension while contributing to transformative
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Honest Evaluation in the Academy Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Joseph C. Hermanowicz
Honesty is widely understood as an ethical imperative in science and scholarship. This article examines the operation of this ethic in an area crucial to academe but which has not received sufficient attention: faculty review of candidates seeking appointment to academic rank—in hiring and promotion—in U.S. higher education organizations. Confidentiality is a professional norm indicative of these faculty
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Scientific Integrity Matters Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-03-22 Catherine Paradeise, Ghislaine Filliatreau
Scientific misconduct is believed to be on the increase as the media frequently report dramatic cases. Scientific societies, academies, publishers, and stakeholders in industry are all expressing growing concern. Public opinion and political leaders are consequently becoming skeptical about science as a provider of reliable knowledge. Yet spectacular headline news should not hide pernicious misbehaviors
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On the Social Shaping of Quantum Technologies: An Analysis of Emerging Expectations Through Grant Proposals from 2002–2020 Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-03-18 Tara M. Roberson
The term ‘quantum technology’ was first popularised by an Australian physicist in the mid-1990s. These technologies make use of the properties of quantum physics and are being developed and invested across the world, yet this emerging technology is understudied in science and technology studies. This article investigates the emergence of the notion of ‘quantum technologies’ and examines the expectations
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Internally Incentivized Interdisciplinarity: Organizational Restructuring of Research and Emerging Tensions Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-02-17 Mikko Salmela, Miles MacLeod, Johan Munck af Rosenschöld
Interdisciplinarity is widely considered necessary to solving many contemporary problems, and new funding structures and instruments have been created to encourage interdisciplinary research at universities. In this article, we study a small technical university specializing in green technology which implemented a strategy aimed at promoting and developing interdisciplinary collaboration. It did so
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Roger D. Launius, Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Darina Volf
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A Review of Mark Dennis Robinson, The Market in Mind—How Financialization is Shaping Neuroscience, Translational Medicine and Innovation in Biotechnology Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-02-03 Barbara Hendriks
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German Professors’ Motivation to Act as Peer Reviewers in Accreditation and Evaluation Procedures Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-01-09 Sandra Ohly, Christian Schneijderberg
Acting as a reviewer is considered a substantial part of the role-bundle of the academic profession (quality assurance (QA) and quality enhancement (QE) role). Research literature about peer review, for example, for journals and grants, shows that acting as a peer reviewer adds to an academic’s reputation. However, little is known about academics’ motivation to act as reviewers. Based on self-determination
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The Grudging Modernizer: A Trip to the Middle East and Cold War Social Science Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-01-04 Matteo Bortolini
The postwar era is generally recognized as a unique moment of impetuous growth of the social sciences, due to the interest of Western internationalist elites in the development of a set of pragmatically-oriented intellectual tools that could be of use in the confrontation between the self-proclaimed “Free World,” the Soviet bloc, and emerging postcolonial nations. In the last twenty years, however
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Science Diplomacy Policy Processes in Comparative Perspective: The Use of Scientific Cooperation Agreements in Canada, India, Norway, and the UK Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2021-01-04 Emma Sabzalieva, Creso M. Sá, Magdalena Martinez, Nadiia Kachynska
There is growing attention to science diplomacy among scholars, policymakers, and scientific associations around the world. However, there continues to be contestation around the concept of science diplomacy, currently framed alternately as a new understanding of diplomacy, part of the global challenges discourse, central to the internationalization of science, and typifying competitive innovation
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Green Open Access in Astronomy and Mathematics: The Complementarity of Routines Among Authors and Readers Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Niels Taubert
Open access (OA) to publications has become a major topic in science policy. However, electronic publication providing free access to research via the internet is more than a decade older, was invented in the 1990s and driven by parts of the scientific community. This paper focuses on two disciplines (astronomy and mathematics) in which green OA is well established. It asks how authors and readers
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Navigating Uncertainty: Early Career Academics and Practices of Appraisal Devices Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Jonatan Nästesjö
There is a lack of objective evaluative standards for academic work. While this has been recognized in studies of how gatekeepers pass judgment on the works of others, little is known about how scholars deal with the uncertainty about how their work will be evaluated by gatekeepers. Building upon 35 interviews with early career academics in political science and history, this paper explores how junior
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Algunas ideas de investigación científica Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2020-12-08 Jose Manuel Calizaya
Scientific research starts from a fundamental precept that is the existence of a logical structure, and therefore not contradictory, that fluidly articulates all human knowledge that has been verified, rationalized and conceptualized in a given area; this is called science. This work presents a theoretical analysis of scientific research from a social point of view. Calizaya et al., Algun s i as de
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Prevalencia de micosis superficial en pacientes con lesiones sugestivas de dermatofitosis Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2020-12-08 Ilka Patricia Aveiga Maldonado, Beatriz M. Maldonado Lira
This work consisted of identifying the prevalence of superficial mycosis in patients with lesions suggestive of dermatophytosis. To this end, a prospective, quantitative longitudinal-cut study was carried out with a documentary and exploratory scope in which 42 patients participated, who during the months of the study came with a presumed diagnosis of superficial mycosis; The results obtained showed
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La salud en los pueblos indígenas: atención primaria e interculturalidad Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2020-12-08 Consuelo de Jesús Alban Meneses, Víctor Manuel Sellan Icaza, Consuelo Lorena Moran Alban
The Indigenous nations and peoples have worrying indices in terms of health care, as well as other historical shortcomings related to land ownership, food, education and, in general, the exercise of their rights, Established by international organizations, such as the UN and WHO-PAHO. In Ecuador, in accordance with the constitutional legal order, health policies have been implemented that include the
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Private Issues in Public Spaces: Regimes of Engagement at a Citizen Conference Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Juan C. Aceros, Miquel Domènech
The ‘participatory turn’ in science and technology governance has resulted in the growth of initiatives designed to engage lay people in consultation and decision-making on controversial matters. Almost from the start there has been both enthusiasm and serious critique of these exercises, from scholars and activists. The gaps and challenges are well known. In this paper we indicate the limitations
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A Symbiosis of Access: Proliferating STEM PhD Training in the U.S. from 1920–2010 Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2020-10-23 Frank Fernandez, David P. Baker, Yuan-Chih Fu, Ismael G. Muñoz, Karly Sarita Ford
Over the course of the 20th century, unprecedented growth in scientific discovery was fueled by broad growth in the number of university-based scientists. During this period the American undergraduate enrollment rate and number of universities with STEM graduate programs each doubled three times and the annual volume of new PhDs doubled six times. This generated the research capacity that allowed the
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Scholarly Communities at the Crossroads: Internationalizing Sociological Networks in Valparaíso, Chile (2003–2019) Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Tomás Koch, Gustavo Blanco-Wells, Ricardo A. Ayala
Achievements and tensions derived from the internationalization of national scholarly communities have attracted extensive attention. However, very little is hitherto known about the effects of these processes on specific situated communities. Through a multi-method approach (bibliometrics and interviews), we provide a nuanced description of these effects on the becoming of university-based sociology
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Clinician-Scientists in-and-between Research and Practice: How Social Identity Shapes Brokerage Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2020-10-06 Esther de Groot, Yvette Baggen, Nienke Moolenaar, Diede Stevens, Jan van Tartwijk, Roger Damoiseaux, Manon Kluijtmans
Clinician-scientists (CSs) are vital in connecting the worlds of research and practice. Yet, there is little empirical insight into how CSs perceive and act upon their in-and-between position between these socio-culturally distinct worlds. To better understand and support CSs’ training and career development, this study aims to gain insight into CSs’ social identity and brokerage. The authors conducted
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Bibliometrics in Academic Recruitment: A Screening Tool Rather than a Game Changer Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2020-09-10 Ingvild Reymert
This paper investigates the use of metrics to recruit professors for academic positions. We analyzed confidential reports with candidate evaluations in economics, sociology, physics, and informatics at the University of Oslo between 2000 and 2017. These unique data enabled us to explore how metrics were applied in these evaluations in relation to other assessment criteria. Despite being important evaluation
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Gil Eyal, The Crisis of Expertise Minerva (IF 2.356) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Mark B. Brown
With especially grim implications, the coronavirus pandemic provides further evidence for what careful observers have long understood: expertise is both indispensable and insufficient for coping with society’s most urgent problems. People following events in the United States have seen the glaring contrast between the judicious briefings of infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci and the spectacularly